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Flagship course · 18 phases · 175 chapters

Claude Code Mastery

End-to-end mastery of Claude Code for working engineers — build TaskFlow, a real microservices app, on a fully-local Docker stack, directing an agent through every layer from first commit to production rollout.

18 phases175 chaptersFully-local Docker stackTaskFlow

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01 · Overview

The course at a glance

The flagship course for engineers who already ship code and now want to direct Claude Code like a lead directs a team. It moves through all five layers of the tool — memory, context, tools, automation and distribution — against one real system rather than toy snippets.

The build is TaskFlow: a .NET, React and MySQL microservices app running on a fully-local Docker Compose stack with Jenkins and Keycloak. It grows across eighteen sequential phases, from the first health-check endpoint to an autonomous build-review-deploy demo and a rollout into your own production codebase.

18
Phases
175
Chapters
5
Layers mastered
1
Flagship app
02 · The teaching method

How learning happens

Every chapter follows the same loop — taught in Phase 0 and run for the rest of the course. Two beats to learn, two beats to build. Most chapters take 30–60 minutes; the build chapter that closes each phase runs longer.

BEAT 01

Learn

A short read plus an animated model of the idea. No syntax dumps — you learn what the thing is for.

BEAT 02

Brief

Write the instruction in plain English. Precision of intent is the skill being trained here.

BEAT 03

Review

Read what came back against a checklist. This is where engineers are actually made.

BEAT 04

Tweak

Change one thing yourself, by hand, and watch it move. Ownership beats copy-paste.

03 · Before you start

What you need first

You bring

Working engineering experience

You already read diffs, run a terminal and ship features. This course changes how you do it, not whether you can.

You bring

Docker on your machine

Everything runs locally — .NET, React, MySQL, Jenkins and Keycloak on one Docker Compose stack. No cloud account required.

This course

The TaskFlow build

Setup → memory → checkpoints → daily driver → skills → MCP → hooks → subagents → plugins → production → the Claude suite.

04 · What gets built

The portfolio

Everything built in this course is real, runnable, and shareable — and it compounds into one flagship artefact.

PHASES 1–5 · FOUNDATIONS

A configured, remembered TaskFlow

Installed and authenticated, with a CLAUDE.md constitution, safe checkpoints and disciplined permissions.

PHASES 13–18 · SHIP

Two capstones + the Claude suite

An autonomous production demo, a real-world rollout, and one feature carried across Chat, Design, Code and Cowork.

05 · The endgame

The capstone

Two capstones bracket the advanced material. The first proves Claude Code can build, review and deploy TaskFlow on its own; the second proves you can carry one feature across all four Claude surfaces. Between them you learn to roll the whole system into your own production codebase.

TaskFlow to Production

P13 · INTEGRATION

All five layers at once

Memory, context, tools, automation and distribution working together on a single TaskFlow feature.

P13 · AUTONOMY

The autonomous demo

Claude Code builds, reviews and deploys via Docker Compose while you watch the loop run end-to-end.

P14 · ROLLOUT

Your real codebase

Take everything from TaskFlow and onboard Claude Code into your own production .NET microservices.

P18 · FOUR SURFACES

One feature, four surfaces

Thought in Chat, prototyped in Design, built in Code, announced by Cowork — the relay run for real.

06 · What's taught and where

Concept coverage matrix

Every major concept, where it's introduced, and where it pays off.

Concept
Introduced
Where it pays off
The five-layer model
P1
Where every later concept lives
CLAUDE.md project memory
P2
Every prompt for the rest of the course
Checkpoints & /rewind
P3
Fearless refactors from here on
Skills — modular expertise
P6
Repeated TaskFlow workflows
MCP — external integrations
P7A
Retrieval, RAG and real tools
Hooks — guardrails
P8
A self-defending TaskFlow
Subagents — delegation
P9
Review, test and security passes
Loop engineering
P12B
Systems that drive themselves
The Claude suite
P15
The final four-surface capstone
07 · What you can claim, and when

The skill ladder

What you can honestly say after each stage. Each claim maps to something you've built, run, and can show on a screen.

P1–5

I run Claude Code with discipline

A configured setup, a CLAUDE.md constitution and controlled permissions.

P6–10

I extend Claude Code

Custom skills, MCP integrations, guardrail hooks, subagents and a shipped plugin.

P11–12B

I run it in production

Claude in CI, budgeted and observed, driving an engineered loop.

P13–18

I lead agentic engineering

An autonomous demo, a real rollout, and mastery of all four Claude surfaces.

08 · How long this takes

Time and pacing

Each chapter is roughly 30–60 minutes of focused work; the build chapters that close each phase run longer. At a steady few-chapters-a-week pace, 175 chapters across 18 phases land around three to five months of part-time study.

3–5 mo

Steady pace

A few chapters a week alongside a working job.

30–60 min

Typical chapter

The build chapter closing each phase runs longer.

Forever

Access

Every phase repo, before and after — captured.

Access

One subscription. Every course.

Claude Code Mastery isn't sold on its own. A single MJ Tech Institute plan unlocks it alongside every other course we've shipped — 8 today, with more added over time — at no extra cost.

Everything, included

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Start free first

The first 2 lessons of Claude Code Mastery cost nothing, no card required, before you choose a plan.

Finish with end-to-end mastery of Claude Code and a production-shipped TaskFlow

Phase 0 is free and takes about an hour. If it doesn't click, you've lost nothing.

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